R. Kelly, Linkin Park, Mariah Songs Banned From 'American Idol' Auditions

The third season of American Idol kicked off this week on FOX with the final auditions show airing Wednesday (January 21) at 8 p.m. ET. The three opening shows take a behind-the-scenes look at the good, the bad, and the really, really bad from auditions in New York, Atlanta and Houston. The season premiere of American Idol on Monday (January 19) attracted an estimated 28 million viewers.


According to information from the hit show obtained by LAUNCH, several singers and songs were banned from being performed at this year's auditions, including Sarah McLachlan's "Angel," Etta James' "At Last," Elton John's "Candle In The Wind," and the ever-popular "Fallin'" by Alicia Keys. You also won't hear anything by Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Mariah Carey, No Doubt, R. Kelly, Tom Petty, Korn, Linkin Park, Carly Simon, or John Mellencamp during the audition process.


The American Idol memo also discourages "most alternative rock bands" to perform during the audition.



Basically, don't sing anything good.

Just because they've been sung too much or something?

well i guess thats true for some of those artists but...alternative rock songs...not very many people sing those right

Not many of them involve singing :p

lol...exactly

On a more interesting note, for the past 2 nights on Conan, Triump the Insult Comid Dog has been in Hawaii pooping on people in line to be American Idle contestants.

GREATNESS.

Particularly the Jesus cameo.